College of Science & Engineering

EPSRC Vacation Internship 2024/25

The University is currently recruiting undergraduate students for the Schools of Chemistry, Computing Science, Engineering, Mathematics & Statistics and Physics & Astronomy to work on a research project over the summer, under the EPSRC Vacation Internship scheme. 

The scheme supports undergraduate students to gain practical first-hand experience of research and encourages them to consider a research career. Students receive a salary of ca £440 per week (assuming satisfactory engagement with their research) and carry out a project lasting eight to ten weeks during the summer holiday. All students will be invited to a reception in September at which they will be required to present their research. 

Students should be in the middle years of a first degree within EPSRC's remit, and able to fulfil EPSRC doctoral training grant eligibility requirements by the end of their undergraduate degree (i.e be classified as home/EU for fee purposes).  

To apply, please complete the EPSRC Vacation Internship 2024/25 and send it to scieng-gradschool@glasgow.ac.uk by Friday 2nd May 2025. Projects will commence in late June/early July (to be confirmed on discussion with the supervisor).  

Projects are available across the Schools as follows:

School of Chemistry

Project	Supervisor(s)
Assessment of Chromatography to Promote Sustainability-Focused Purification Methods	Dr Alex Loch and Dr Joseph Cameron
Turn Waste into Value: Electrochemical Upcycling of Polymers	Dr Bernhard Schmidt and Dr Alex Ganin

School of Computing Science

Project	Supervisor(s)
Recognising the Deafblind Manual Fingerspelling Alphabet using Optical Sensors	Dr Euan Freeman
Formally Verified Telecommunications in Spaaaaaaaaace	Dr Paul Harvey
Comparing Affective Feedback Styles for Social Robots using Augmented Reality Prototyping	Dr Shaun Macdonald and Dr Euan Freeman
Boosting concurrent performance of conservative garbage collectors on CHERI capability systems	Dr Dejice Jacob

School of Engineering

Project	Supervisor(s)
Brillouin micro-spectroscopy as an advanced tool for mechanical characterization of 3D-bioprinted scaffolds for tissue engineering	Dr Giedrė Astrauskaitė and Aleksandra Kozyrina
Optimisation of RNA extraction methods to identify active microbes involved in Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation in soils	Dr Carla Comadran Casas
Simulation and analysis of energy-efficient biasing networks for superconducting digital electronics using open-source SPICE models	Dr Joao Barbosa
Numerical Investigation of the Vortex Ring State for Rotary Wings	Dr Tao Zhang and Prof George Barakos
Advancing UAV Technology for Offshore Wind Turbine Monitoring	Dr Yuan Ye

School of Mathematics & Statistics

Project	Supervisor(s)
Evaluating Carbon and Cost Impacts of Household Energy System Upgrades Using OpenSynth Data	Dr Jethro Linley
Machine learning for camera trap image classification	Dr Peter Stewart and Dr Tiffany Vlaar

School of Physics & Astronomy

Project	Supervisor(s)
Snapshot 3D fluorescence microscopy via tomographic imaging	Dr Daniel Olesker